The Sun. — London, England, 1836-06-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We observe that all the Tory journals—daily and weekly—the Times in particular, seized with avidity on the accusation (in the action, Norton against Lord Melbourne) as a political measure. But in no instance was the guilt or innocence of the parties fairly balanced. The accusation was made, the guilt pre-determined, and savagely and ferociously prejudged. Fabricated lies about the contents of letters, reflecting upon illustrious personages, were freely dispersed in their columns. Let us calmly state the facts and the re sults. After a public examination of the evidence, fished and raked up from the filth of an old •clothes cellar in Monmouth-street, St. Giles's—maintained, fed, and lodged at the expense of one whose connec tion with the unhappy lady ought to have induced that Noble Person to repel with scorn such dirty contami nation—it is manifest that perjury of the foulest and grossest kind has been bought and paid for. If the smallest spark of the feelings of honour dwell in the breast of Lord Grantley, it is his bounden duty instantly to make all the reparation he can for the deep, and probably incurable, wound which he has in flicted on the fair fame and happiness of his own sis ter-in law. Let him reflect that the public now know these filthy gleanings stop at 1833. He is now pub licly told that he knew that Mr. and Mrs. Norton lived on terms of intimate affection till within these very few months past. We leave him, and pass on to others. That the cause was rot ten at the core was , made pretty evident before the trial, by the gratuitous anxiety of certain Noble and virtuous Orange legisla tors, by themselves and their emissaries, making un called for protestations that the proceedings had not only not been promoted by them, but that they had taken no part whatever—not they, upon their honour. We ask Mr. Bailey, one of the counsel for this abo minable political prosecution, whether he did not, about some three weeks or a month since, state that he was going to a consultation on this cause, at which Lord Wynford was to he present. As coun sel, Mr. Bailey did his duty ; and our question is only to the fact, whether he did or not make - such a state ment ? ~ It is so creditably reported, that for certain reasons, well known to us, we are desirous of an an swer. These Tories have succeeded, in their unmanly eagerness to embarrass a Government identified with the liberties of the people of Great Britain and Ire land, in dragging a beautiful, accomplished, and ta lented woman (now a helpless woman, made so by their foul slanders), but most innocent lady, before the public, but they have failed, signally failed, in attaching to her one stain of guilt. We blush for the English Press. Decency and forbearance to that sex before which it is the glory of man to bow with reve rence and affection, which it is our duty to protect at every hazard, have been most ruthlessly thrown aside. What shall we have next ?—Morning Chronicle. Jt was rumoured for some days, and we have reason to bolieve was well ascertained, that after waiting for the fitaal decision of the House of Lords against that unprincipled measure, the Irish Bill for transforming Protestant Corporations into Popish ones, the Radical Ministers had made up their minds to revenge them selves arid their patrons, the priests, by abruptly pro roguir g the Parliament. This was to be the grand mastei-stroke of the Session 1836, and it would be surrounded by a double glory, inasmuch as, except the Constabulary Bill and the voting of the Supplies, the only measure of the Session would be the proroga tion ! The English Tithe Bill was in that case to have been flung overboard. The Irish Tithe Bill, with our well-beloved appropriation clause, was to have been flung overboard. The Dissenters, as against Conservative Statesmen, so unruly and so rabid, so thankless, moreover, to Sir R. Peel for his liberal and excellent measure, completely relieving that body from their stock grievance, the old law for the registry of births and marriages, which the intrusion of the Whigs into office alone prevented him from carrying through Parliament— those same Dissenters, such patterns of meekness and long suffering iNowards the Whig-Papist - Ministers, who have treated them throughout with disdainful contumely—they, too, with the rest of flit superfluous live stock, were to have gone overboard for the present year—ay, and for a whole century, should these inefficient and hollow-hearted Whigs remain in place so long—nay, Daniel and his motion for annihilating the House of Lords was to have been sacrificed with the rest, to lighten the sinking vessel. And why were such disgraceful doings meditated ? "Me did the Melbourne Ministry design to make iheniselves a subject of aggravated scorn to Englishmen present and to come, and to statesmen throughout the 'civilized world, by this new proof of utter incapacity for government? Because they feel that incapacity every time they respire—because they have no chance of existing, even from hand to mouth, but by the administration of some fresh stimulus to the par tisans of eternal change, and finding in the House of Lords an insurmountable bar to the quiet accomplish ment of those innovations to which they-have pledged themselves, but which bond, the power that rules them \ will not suffer them to " shake off," they have enter tained hopes of laying their own offences upon the shtiuZders of the Upper House of Parliament—and by crying " mad dog" at an assembly of Legislators whom they can neither cajole nor intimidate, they have all along flattered themselves that what the House of Peers 'might, through their misrepresentations, lose with Ithe revolutionary rabble, they themselves would gain. The anticipated rejection, therefore, of the Popish Municipal Bill seemed to furnish a promising opportu city for holding up the Peers once more to the resentment of the Radicals ; and to prorogue Parliament on the top of such an act of disobe dience in their Lordships, would usher in a recess of -seven or eight months, with brilliant prospects of a campai g n of successful agitation, both here 5;1 in Ireland, against the House of Lords as the prime state culprits,. chargeable with whatever the Whig Ministers had done that was wrong, or had not done that weas desirable. During the said seven months, besides, Mr. Daniel O'Connell's tenants-at-will in Downin i l-street might enjoy their salaries free of mo lestation, .and neglect their business with no fear of any punishment but disgrace, which, in the arithmetie of certain persons, amounts to something like impunity. however, a new light has broken in upon them ; the stroke befitted desperate men, but was too bold .for weak cues. The Ministers began to dread the explo sion of their own shell, and, if we are not very wrong in our guess, the scheme of a prorogation has been for the present relinquished. In the mean time, the world will enjoy a rich treat in the blunderings and writhings of these would-be statesmen, during their attempts to bring before Parliament what remains of the unful filled prospectus wherewith they opened the session.— Times. The success of the Bill to enable prisoners charged with felony to make their full defence by Counsel now seems to be placed beyond a doubt—such a cause, taken under the protection of the splendid talents of Lord Lyndhurst, cannot fail to be triumphant. On the anticipated result of the Noble and Learned Lord's advocacy iv may congratulate the *iends to the itn provement of the administration of justice. An ano nsaly, cruel in principle and barbarous in origin, will b e r emoved from the practice of our criminal sys tem, a nd life and lib er ty, in questions chiefly affect ing the poor, will no longer be delved of the pro tection which is thrown round property by the precautionary wisdom of British law. The admis rabic exposition which Lord Lyndhurst gave, in his speech in the House of Lords, of the past and present state of the law as to prisoners chttuged with felony, makes it needless for us to enter at any great length into the question, more ,especially as we have on former occasions, during the successive years in which e have advocated this measure, taken no small pains to set the public mind right upon this subject. Nor have we spoken as theorists on this w any other branch of our system of criminal jurisprudence, the reiorra o f which we have presstd on the attention of the Legislature and the country—we have closely oh served the practical working of the system. We hav e , we true`, temperately, but at the same time, fearlessly, exposed its defects, whether of principle or practice, • and oow we have the satisfaction to say,' that of the many important improvements which we have re - comnicnded, a considerable number have become law, and the rest are in assured advancement towards final • - e success. The speech of Lord Lyndhurst made a power imin.ession on the House, where so forcible and lucid an exposition of the absurd and cruel anomaly which the Prisoners' Counsel Bill is intended to remove was never before given. Well did he show how the prac tice in regard to prisoners triable for felony, had been softened down from its first unmitigated injustice, when neither witnesses could be examined or Counsel em ployed, even to take points of law for the prisoner, to its present qualified injustice, when an enactment that would allow the prisoner to address the Jury on the evidence by his Counsel, would sweep away " the last relic of a barbarous system." If it were wrong to allow the prisoner to make his full defence by Counsel in cases of felony, the law ought to be repealed which allows him that right of defence in cases of treason, as well as in cases of misdemeanor. But who would dare to propose the repeal of the salutary and humane pro visions with which the law protects human life against the chances of unjust judgment in cases of treason ? If the practice of the law is to be made uniform, as it ought to be, the thing cannot be done by repealing the precautionary provisions of the law in cases of treason and misdemeanor, but by adopting similar provisions in cases of felony, in which latter cases riot only is it necessary for the ends of equal justice that the pri soner should be allowed to make his full defence by Counsel, but he ought also to have a legal right to a copy of the indictment, and a compulsory process for the attendance of his witnesses.—Morning Herald. The decrepitude into which the Conservative fac tion has fallen is followed by its natural results—dis sension between the leaders, and disaffection among the troops. The Peel and Lyndhurst fracas has opened the flood-gates of innumerable minor channels, and mutual recriminations are the order of the day among that " band of brothers" who would gladly do us the honour of once more taking into their hands the affairs of this great nation, if John Bull would only forego his incurable and absurd antipathy to their manage ment. It has been long understood by those who were admitted behind the curtain, that in addition to the trifling obstacle which an abhorrence which may jusk.ly be called national, throws in the way of a Tory rei&l to power, there were internal impediments, which, however skilfully varnished over, were not the less real and embarrassing. The heterogeneous and irreconcilable materials which go to the composi tion of the motley squad who were supposed to re cognise Sir Robert Peel and Lord Lyndhurst as their leaders, contained within themselves the ele ments of dissolution, and it only required some un expected triumph, or some signal defeat, to separate the ill-assorted and ominous confederacy. Fortunately for the present and future prospects of England, the glorious majority of 86 has blasted (we trust for ever) the prospect of a Tory ascendancy, and it has had the farther good effect of exposing, in all their naked defor mity, the hollow professions of political devotion con stantly on the lips of those in whose hearts are envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness. We say it at once, plainly and distinctly—and we know that we are borne out by the facts—that Sir Robert Peel and Lord Lyndhurst have never had the cordial support of the majority of those who ostensibly enrolled themselves under their banners. The son of the Manchester cotton-spinner, and the son of the Ameri can artist, have been, at all times, the object of the malignant, but concealed, hatred of those insolent oligarchs, who were content, for their own purposes, to follow in their train—but the haughty Aristocrats indemnified themselves for their external subser viency, by the most scurrilous . invectives, when ever they thought they could be safely hazarded. The recent quarrel of the "brace of parvenus" (for thus are designated the political chiefs of the Conservatives by their own soi-disant adherents), has removed all delicacy upon the subjegi i ; and the very saloons of the Carlton Club, and the other Tory preserves, ring with unmeasured, abuse now of the poltroonery of Peel, now of the rashness of Lyndhurst. And what—we ask the question in sober sadness—must be the destiny of Eng land, should any inconceivable caprice once more at tempt the experiment of a Tory resuscitation ? Confu sion at home, and contempt abroad. Corruption, which, under better auspices, has hidden her ill-omened head, would once more- stalk abroad unchecked and una bashed. Industry, and Prosperity her natural attendant, would fly from the unhallowed usurpation. The burnings, the tumultuous assemblages, the stagnation of trade, and the universal misery, which marked the period of Conservative domination, would again return with accumulated horrors—and, possibly, some terrible national convulsion would be necessary to restore the vessel of the State to her proper equilibrium. But do we, indeed, entertain any apprehensions that our coun trymen will again bow the neck to Tory domination ? —that having shaken off the monstrous incubus, they will once more voluntarily submit to its pestiferous in fluence ? We know the native spirit of Britons too well, to insult them by the degrading supposition. The voice of the people, emphatically pronounced by their representatives, and seconded by a patriot Mo narch, will drown the whisper of any faction which may dare to oppose it ; and the ill•advised obsti nacy which seems to shut its eyes to the warn ings of experience, will be taught the salutary, but painful lesson, that no reverence for antiquity, arid no prestige of a name will protect an institution which has become incurable in error, and anti-national in feeling.—Morning Advertiser. The House of Commons decided last night, by a majority of 24, the whole number of Members present being 370, for the rejection of a Bill which would have given to the mercantile and shipping interests of Liverpool the management of those extensive and va luable docks which the mercantile and shipping interest has created, of which that interest must always be the exclusive support, and for the faithful and judicious management of which that interest is naturally more vigilant and zealous than any other. That this was a just and salutary Bill may fairly be inferred from the fact .that, opposed, by the whole power and influence of Government, it was, nevertheless, rejected by a majority of only 24 in a House of 370 Members. So strenuous was the opposition of - the Ministerial party to the measure, that we find Lords of the Treasury were dragged from their Board to vote against it in Committee, and to be defeated. The impar tiality and wisdom of the House itself were to be brought into operation before it could be determined, that the merchants and ship owners of Liverpool ought to have less to do with the management of the docks than the small shop keepers, the dealers in spirituous liquors and tobacco by retail, and the lodginghouse-keepers of that town. That this must be the practical effect of committing the management of these great commercial establish ments to the' town council, nobody can affect to doubt; and the good sense and equity of the proceeding can scarcely be placed in a stronger light than by the proof which the division affords that even the House of Commons was almost ashamed of it. It is of little importance, however, to his Majesty's Ministers how severely they tax the consciences of their supporters, and of still less importance whether the docks of Liver pool are henceforth to be managed so as to promote to the utmost the convenience of commerce and the se curity of the incalculable amount of mercantile property they always contain. What is really important in their estimation is that the town council, consisting chiefly of supporters of the Ministerial Member, should be enabled to draw to itself an absolute monopoly of local patronage and power. We suspect that the propor tion of shipowners and merchants in the town council of Liverpool is not very considerable. But what sig nifies the composition of that assembly ? Suppose it to consist for the greater part of shoemakers and tailors, may not tailors and shoemakers be as good voters as other men, and as good canvassers, t oo , among their own numerous class for the Whig Mem ber for the borough ; and what more is required to make them excellent judges and faithful administrator s in all that relates to the construction, repair, and inter nal economy of docks ?—Morning Post. A whale, when struck with the harpoon, will (live sometimes to a depth of 800 fathoms ; and as the surface of a large animal may be estimated at 1,500 square feet, at this great depth it will have to sustain a pressure equal. to 211,000 tons. The transition from that which it is exposed to at the surface, and which may be taken at about 1,300 tons, to so enormous an increa3e, must be productive of the utmost exhaustion. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 23.—We have no alteration to notice in our cotton-market to-day. The sales are 2,500 bales—viz., 100 Egyptians, 14d. to 17d. ; 40 Babies, 12d. ; 50 Maranhams, 12d. ; 50 Surats, 61d. to 81d.; I remainde r American, from 9d. to 11d. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS BR ES NAH AM V. AARON. This was an action for false imprisonment. The plaintiff is a poor young orange vender, who supports her mother by her industry. The defendant, teeing a rival vender upon a more extensive scale, sold to the plaintiff and others. The plaintiff on the 28th of February (Sunday) purchased a box of oranges from the defendant, which she paid for in silver, receiving some coppers iu change. After she had left the house she was followed and taken into custody, and brought before Sir Chapman Marshall, on the charge of taking away the oranges without paying for them. On the hearing of the case Sir Chapman Marshall recommended the charge to be withdrawn, which was accordingly done ; but the plaintiff brought her action for the indignity which she had endured by being kept in custody. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 51. EXCHEQUER COURT.-FRIDAY. BEGLIE V. GREGORY. This was an action to recover damages for an assault, committed upon the plaintiff in the service of a writ. There was also another action for the publication of a libel in the Satirist newspaper, which arose out of the qui tam actions which were some time since instituted against several publicans and licensed victuallers, to recover pe nalties for allowing music and dancing in their houses. The first cause had proceeded some way, when, upon a sugges tion from his Lordship, a juror was withdrawn by consent, and a stet processus directed to be entered in the second. Some actions upon bills of exchange were then proceed ed with. They possessed no public interest. Special jury causes will be taken to-morrow (this day.) WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. Yesterday being county day, there was a very numerous assemblage of Magistrates on the Bench. B. CONST, Esq., Chairman. The criminal cases, two of which are not of a charac ter to be given to the public, and the others, which were merely of a common-place description, were disposed of by half past two o'clock. GAMING-EOUSE.—A. true bill having been found against Daniel Gibson for a misdemeanour, in keeping a common gaming-house in the parish of St. James's, Mr. C. JONES moved the Court, on affidavit, to call on the defendant (against whom there are three other indict ments of a similar description) to give forty-eight hours' no tice of bail, and enter into sureties of such an amount as might secure his attendance to take his trial. The CHAIRMAN refused the application. The country business was then proceeded with. The venerable Mr. Coast was then unanimously elected Chairman of the Sessions until the county day, inclusive of the next December Quarter Sessions. The minutes of the last Quarter Sessions were read and confirmed, and the report of the Visiting justices of the New Bridewell (4 Geo. IV., cap. 64, sec. 16) was like wise read, from which it appeared that it at present con tained 350 prisoners, who 'were generally healthy and well conducted, and attended divine service every day. The expenses of the prison since the last report amounted to 1,247/. Is. Bd. The report was agreed, as well as a re commendation made by the visiting justices to increase the wages of such of the turnkeys as had been two years in that employment without any complaint being made against them. The remainder of the businegt which involved nothing of consequence, was got through, and the Court adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UEEN-SQ UARE. DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF A HUSBAND TO MURDER HIS WlFE.—Philip Gamp, a Geri an, about forty years of age, was on Thursday placed at the bar before D. W. GREGORIE, Esq., charged with inflicting several severe wounds with a knife on the person of his wife. The unfortunate sufferer, N'vho has great pretensions to personal attractions, was brouglia in a coach from St. George's Hospital, and, in consequence of weakness, was accommodated with a chair. Martha Gamp resided at No. 62, South-street, Chelsea, and has been married to the prisoner eight years. His conduct latterly has been so strange and incoherent as to attract her attention. It had been particularly so for the last six weeks. On last Friday week she remarked that he carried a knife in the breast pocket of his coat. Witness inquired why he did so, remonstrated on the impropriety, and added, " Pray put it away ; you know I don't like it." He replied, " If you charge me again I shall stab you with it."—( Witness had never given evidence against him, or complained of him in any way.) But he said otherwise he would not hurt a hair of her head. On Saturday week at half-past twelve at night he went to bed, but expressed his fears that somebody would take him into custody in the course of the night. A few minutes afterwards she saw him fidgetting the knife about, but at that moment he did not feel any apprehension for her own safety, but she was afraid that he would injure himself. She got out of bed and said, seeing that he still had the hand on the handle of the knife, " You wouldn't hurt me; you wouldn't do as the man did at Pentonville ?" At this moment he struck her a very violent blow on the side of the head, and from that moment she was insensible. He had only been a few weeks out of an institution for lunatics. The wife was then removed, and in passing the dock was considerably agitated. She exclaimed, " Oh, my dear, dear husband, how could you do so ?" It was with diffi culty that she was removed, but he did not appear conscious of her presence. The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. William King Kent, a person who has been in the em ploy of his Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests as a deputy surveyor, was yesterday placed at the bar for re-examination, charged with having embezzled the sum of 5,0001. Mr. William Marsh Round, Accountant to the Corn ' miisioners of Woods and Forests, proved that it was the prisoner's duty to account for the felling of timber, and the whole of the moneys received by public sales or by private contract. He had in short to account for the whole of the produce of the forest, and those accounts were to be ren:. dered quarterly, and made up annually. There was a de ficiency in an account of the 11th of April, 1833. In 1834, when the prisoner had absconded, Mr. Turner, de puty surveyor of the New Forest, was sent down, and in examining the accounts the discrepancies were discovered. Mr. Palmer, a tanner, of Olney, Bucks, proved the buy. ing of a quantity of bark. It was on the 11th of April, 1833. He paid the prisoner in the respe . ctive sums of 22/. 15s. ; 17/. 125..; 71. 10s. 6d. ; 181.75. 6d. ; 241. ss. ; and 21/. 2s. 6d.; amounting in all to 1111. 12s. Gd. for the six lots. Mr. Round produced the account supplied by the pri soner of the receipt of the respective sums to the Commis sioners. He had thus accounted.for them :-15/. Bs. 6d. ; 91. 17s. ; 4/. 18s. ; 12/. ss. ; 141. 17s. ; 161. ss. ; making a deficiency of 38/. 2s. on this charge. It will appear that not one of the sums are entered to their full amount. Mr. Thomas Jones, of Hartwell, Northamptonshire, tanner, in May, 1833, purchased. back to the amount of 46/. 10s., and paid to the prisoner 11/. 45., and the re mainder to Mitchel, an assistant of Kent's. There ap peared to be in this account a deficiency of 23/. Bs. John Mitchel, one of the woodreeves, proved paying the money which he had received over to kent. There were some accounts of wages, but they did not interfere with the stated embezzlement. In examining Hartwell Lodge, the official residence of the prisoner, at Salsey, he found a book, containing the bona fide amount of sales, and ano ther the amounts which he had furnished to the Commis- sioners. After a lengthened discussion, the parties were bound over to prosecute at the Central Criminal Court. Monday next is fixed for a grand dinner of the Conservatives of the western division of Devonshire. It is to take place in Exeter. BONE MANURE.--Years have now elapsed since it was currently said of an application which, however unpro mising in appearance, is most potent in reality, that it had added ss. per acre to the value of all the light and sharper soils in the south of Scotland • but that, we suspect, was too low a figure, and wherever the land is of easy access to man and beast, three half crowns or a trifle more may be safely sub stituted for the former number. Portability in manures, as in many things else, is a leading virtue ; and wherever the ele vation of the land is such as to oppose an insurmountable bar rier to the transport and application of ashes, cow, and stable dung, it would be difficult to sat limits to the value of an ar ticle the qualities of which were so long hidden that few things in the world were considered more proverbially worth less than " dry bones." But mark the change. Steeps which for centuries grew nothing but grass, and grass too of inferior quality, are now covered in regular rotation with turnips, oats, barley, and even wheat ; and allowing for some difference of climate (the effect of which is felt more or less in backward seasons) are all but undistinguishable from the plains below. It is considered a good plan to deposit in drills or furrows common manure first, and then spread a sprinkling of bones on the top. In this way there is action and re-action, and the fermentation natural to the one article affects the other fa vourably by bringing its latent virtues sooner into play. In some parts of England two quarters per acre, or sixteen bushels, is considered sufficient, and a writer in the Marie Lane Expres s strongly recommends mixing crushed bones with coal ashes passed through a riddle, that the finer parts may be taken and the rougher rejected. From all this it is plain that extreme portability is the leading virtue of bone manure, and there can be no doubt that it is on the strength of this quality chiefly that so many upland hills and steeps in almost every county in Scotland, previously bare even of blades, have been reclaimed almost from a state of nature to a state of great and growing fertility—vastly to the augmentation of the agricul tural wealth and resources of the country, —Dumfries Courier- PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, THE FR ASSCRANCE COMPANIES, Szc.&e. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 24. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS, per Shares. Annum. Paid. Stare, 1,760 64 pei cent. Ashton and Oldham,...Average 97t. 18s. sh. 162 1,192 61. Ashby.dede-Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 1,241 Basinlstoke RIO/. sh. 51 1,015 51. BrecinCtlf. and ,Abergavenny 150. sh. 9e 4,00065 h. 121. 10s. Birinine,am, 1 -16th share l7/. 10s. 206 4,00,, 1/itto a'.d Liverpool Junct....lool. sh. all pd 30) 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....lOU sh. all pd 64 ......... 400 :"31. Chelmer and Blackwater .. lOO/. oh, 102 500 421. Coventry 1004 sh. 725 4,516 Croydon Average 311.20.10 d. sh. 3 2,0;10 4 3/. 10s. Dudley lOOl. sh. '7B 6no 6/. Derby 100/. sh. 120 20,050 .. Danube and Mayne 41/. 138. 4d. 15/, pd 104 3,575; Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh, SO 231 43'. Erewash 100/. sh. 4)4) 1,297 241/. Forth and Clyde Average 44401.1i15. sh. 590 1,50,1 12/, Grand Jun-" - . Ist/. sh. '2lB 2,q94 Grand Uni0n....0 1001. oh. 25 1 521 ... ...... Grand Surrey#o, 1001. sh. 10,0..0/. 41. per cent. Ditto (optionall Loan lOO/. 75 3,096 Grand Western 604) 13/. No. 9d. Glamorganshlrc, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 Li:6o Gloucester and Berkley Wt. sh. 144 749 10s. Grantham 1501. sh. 202 3,233 11. 104 Huddersfield Average 57!. Os. 60. sh. 32 100 Kensington 100 all. pd. 10 5,308 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/.Bs. 10d. sh. 20 '2,01)74 201. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 510 M 5 12/. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 149 9 , 7 41. Leicester and Northamp:on...Aver 631. ) los. 78 2,420 9/. Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 200 258 9/. Melton Mowbray 100/. sh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 580 3,000 Macclesfield 1004 sh. all pd. 54 247 151. Neath 100/. sh. 325 1,781 3 2!. Oxford . 100/. sh. 581; 522 2/. Oakham 130/. sh. 38 2,400 41. Peak Forest Average about 7S/. sh. 104 31,110 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. Bd. oh. 18) 5,669 Si. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. oh. 113 500 8/. Shropshire Y. 1.51. oh. 140 800 10/. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 160 5,0601. 64 per cent Ditto Lock Fond Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 114 700 36/. Statlbrd and Worcester l4O/. sh. 690 500 11/, Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 24.5 300 8/. stourbridge 3,647 1/. 10s. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s. tIAI. sh. 424 533 13/. Swansea 100/. sh. 215 3,762 11. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 174 2,60400. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 4 share 100/. sh. 595 8,149 1,0005h.1 , rj, W arw ick and Birmingham 100/. sh 276 I,ooaph.s - NO 1' , ... Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 210 6,000 3/. lOs Worcester and Birmingham...Av.7Bl.Bc. sh. 81 5,000 255. Wilts and Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 184 800 6/, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 126 ... „.. W is b eac h lO5l. sh. 45 905 1/. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 22; INCES. The Swabian Mercury gives the following, of the 13th inst., from Vienna :—" It is to-day confidently reportad that the marriage of the King of Naples with the Arch 2 duchess Theresa is decided upon. The English Ambas sador, Sir Frederick Lamb, is expected here, and there upon it is not impossible that Prince Esterhazy rill return to London. Since the departure of the French Princes, the Court has resumed its accustomed tranquil habits, and tie greater part of the Nobles have retired to their estates. The-visit of the French Princes has afforded the good peo ple of Vienna an opportunity for showing their wit. The high functionaries of the State, and even the illustrious strangers themselves, have not escaped the shafts of the na tional humour. It happened that the tickets of admission to the representation given at the theatre at Schcenbrunn bore three colours corresponding with those of the French flag ; but in order to avoid the invidious allusions made, it became necessary to change these colours ou the subsequent occa sions. The two Princes had to contend against the Carlist party, which has numerous adherents here, and who have been inspired with fresh ardour by the recent visit of the Duchess of Angouleme. This hostile spirit was more particularly shown by the ladies of the high aristocracy of Vienna. The followinc , is said to have been the keen re ply given by a distinguished statesman to his wife. The lady, who by her graces has become the delight of the select circle of Vienna, enumerated to her husband all the Dowager Princesses and Duchesses who had vowed not to appear at the ball to be given to the sons of Louis Philippe.. The statesman replied, with a smile, What will signify the absence of these ladies? If the Graces are but there the Harpies may remain at home.' Amongst the ladies to whom the French Princes appeared to pay greatest homage, the Duchess Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, the Duchess Ferdinand of Wirtemberg, and Princess Paul Esterhazy were the most distinguished. We can affirm that in all the high circles, even in those of Bohemia, who are most closely in contact with the elder branch of the Bourbons, there is but one opinion as to the qualities of the sons of Louis Philippe. The inhabitants of Vienna render full justice to the excellent conduct and demeanour of the Princes, considering them, besides, as members of the Imperial family. The project of a matrimonial alliance, which it has been sought to attach to the Princes' visit to Vienna, if it has been really concluded, has not obtaimed much consistence here. One thing is certain, namely, that the Archduchess Theresa was seen only twice by the Royal Dukes during their stay at Vienna—first at the din ner given to them by her father, the Archduke Charles, and next when the two Princes went to take leave of the' Archduke previous to their departure. Prince Metternich has received a beautiful service in porcelain as a present from the King of the French." The following, under the date of Bohemia, June 10, is from the Swabian Mercury : " The daily details published by the Vienna Journals of the fetes given to the sons of Louis Philippe are read with great avidity and spite by the Court of Charles X., upon whom they have a very painful effect. They did not attach so much importance to the accounts from Berlin. But they seem to have forgotten that these Princes of the younger branch are also grAridsons of our illustrious Maria Theresa. In the higher circles malevolent expressions used by the Carlists who are at Toeplitz are repeated with a species of rancour, but we abstain from recording them. The Duchess of Angouleme, on her return from Vienna, brought, o the Court of Charles X. the news of the intended journey of the Princes of Orleans to Vienna. It is said that the Duchess while at the Austrian capital manifested strongly her discontent at the projected visit, but the only answer she received was, " The King of the French has desired it, and the Emperor wills that it should be." M. de Bourgoin, French ambassador at Munich, left that place o❑ the 17th instant for Verona, to meet the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours. INSURRECTION AT JERUSALEM. Intelligence received by the German Papers from Syria up to the 20th ult., contains the followinr , account of an insurrection of troops at Jerusalem, and of its conse quences :-r" On the night of the 14th of April, a soldier having deserted from the regiment in garrison at Jerusalem, the Commandant held thirty-six of his comrades respon sible for the deserter, and condemned them to 100 strokes of the cane each, if the delinquent was not found within four hours. Upon this two companies of the regiment revolted, broke open the doors of the Government Pa lace, and demanded from Bimbarcbi the keys of the town and powder magazine. On his telling them that the Go vernor held the keys, they ran him through 'with the bayonet, and proceeded to attack the Governor's house ; but, finding it barricaded and defended, they went with great noise to the Bethlehem-gate, and descended over the walls into the fosse of the town, taking with them their arms and baggage. The Governor immediately shut up in their barrack the other soldiers who were in the town, fearing that a plot might exist between them and those who had gone. In the morning of the next day five soldiers were brought in, who, in descending from the walls had broken their legs or arms ; the rest, 247 in number, took the road to Karak. The alarm of the inhabitants was very great, as a pillage was expected ; the Governor called the inhabitants to arms, but the summons did not produce much effect. The soldiers who had deserted joined some other mal-contents at Karak, and have extended their depredations to within three or four leagues of Jeru salem. Ibrahim Pacha is proposing to attack them from Ilaina ; and some troops and provisions have already ar rived at the upper part of the Jordan. The garrison of Jerusalem hassince then been reinforced by four hundred men from Rama and Kaissa ; but they were made to march without arms and baggage, since, being Tarsiots, it was feared that they would desert, as many of their coun trymen had done. The roads in the neighbourhood of Je rusalem are very insecure, and many complaints of rob beries were made during the holy week. The insurgents are said to have been joined by some Arabs of the desert, and to amount to fifteen thousand men ; about thirty of the deserters have been brought over ; but the rest resist all offers, and prefer a wandering life to the regime of Egyptian Governors and Generals. DOCKS. 2 ' 609 & 1 3 n c. 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TO HIS EXCELLENCY D. G. BURNET, PRESIDENT OF TIIE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS. SIR-I have the honour to inform you, that on the eve. _ _ ing of the 18th instant, after a forced march of fifty-five miles, which was effected in two days and a half, the army arrived opposite Harrisburgh ; that evening a courier of the enemy was taken, from which I learned that General Santa Anna, with one division of his troops, had marched in the direction of Lynch's Ferry, on the San Jacinto, burn ing Harrisburgh as he passed down. The army was or dered to be in readiness to march early the next morning. The main body effected a crossing over Buffalo Bayon, be low Harrisburgh, on the morning of the 19th, having left the baggage, the sick, and a sufficient camp-guard in the rear. We continued the march throughout the night, making but one halt in the prairie for a short time, and without refreshment. At daylight we resumed the line of march, and in a short distance our scouts en countered those of the enemy, and we • received infor mation that General Santa Anna was at New Wash- ington, and would that day take up the line of march for Anahuac, crossing at Lynch's Ferry. The Texian . army halted within half a mile of the ferry in some timber, and were engaged in slaughtering beeves, when the army of Santa Anna was discovered to be approaching in battle array, having been encamped at Clopper's Point, eight miles below. He took a position with his infantry and artillery in the centre, occupying an island of timber, his cavalry covering the left flank. The artillery then opened on our encampment, consisting of one double for tified medium brass 12-pounder. The infantry, in column, advanced with the design of charging our lines, but were repulsed by a disitharge of grape and canister from our artillery, consisting of two six-pounders. The enemy had occupied a piece of timber within rifle-shot of the left wing of our army, from which an o ccasional interchange of small arms took place between the troops, until the enemy with drew to a position on the bank of the San Jacinto, about three-quarters of a mile from our encampment, and com menced a :fortification. A short time before sunset our mounted men, about 85 in number, under the special com mand of Colonel Sherman, marched out for the purpose of reconnoitring the enemy. Whilst advancing they received a volley from the left of the enemy's infantry, and after a sharp rencontre with their cavalry, in which ours acted well, and performed some feats of daring chivalry, they retired in good order, having had two men severely wounded, and several horses killed. In the mean time the infantry under the . command of Lieutenant-Colonel Willand, and Colonel Rush's regiment, with the artillery, had marched out for the purpose of covering the r e t rea t, if nec essary. All these fell back in good order to our encampment about sun set, and remained without any ostensible action until the 21st., at half-past 3 o'clock, taking the first refreshment which they had enjoyed for two days. The enemy in the mean time extended the right flank of their infantry, so as to occupy the extreme point of a skirt of timber on the bank of the San Jacinto, and secured their left by a forti fication about five feet high, constructed of packs and bag gage, leaving an o p en i ng i n th e cen t re of the breastworl , in which their artillery was placed, the c avalry upon their left wing. About 9 o'clock on the m orning of the 21st, the enemy were reinforced by 500 choice troops, under the command of General Cos, increasing their effective force to upward of 1,500 men,--while our aggregate force for the field numbered 763. At half-past three o'clock in the evening I ordered the officers of the Texian army to p arade their respective ~C commands, having, in the mean time, ordered the bridg on the only road communicating with the Brazos, distant eight miles from our encampment, to be destroyed, thus cutting off all possibility of escape. Our troops paraded with alacrity and spirit, and were anxious for the conflict. Their conscious disparity in numbers only seemed to in crease their enthusiasm► and confidence, and heightened their anxiety for the conflict. Our situation afforded me an opportunity of making the arrangements preparatory to tha attack, without exposing our designs to the enemy. The lst Regiment, commanded by Colonel Burleson, was assigned the centre. The 2d Regiment, under the command of Colonel Sherman, formed the left wing of the army. 'rhe artillery, under the special command of Colonel G. W. Herklev, Inspector-General, ,was placed on the right of the Ist Regiment, and four companies of infantry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Millard, sustained the artillery upon the right. Our cavalry, 61 in number, commanded by Colonel Mirabau B. r Laman (whose gallant and daring conduct on the previous day had attracted the admiration of his comrades, and called him to that station), placed on our extreme right, completed our line. Cavalry was first dispatched to the front of the enemy's left, for the purpose of attracting their notice, whilst an extensive island of timber afforded us an oppor tunity of concentrating our forces and deploying from that point, agreeably to the previous . design of the troops. Every ev o l u ti on w as performed with aacrity, the whole advancing rapidly in line, and through an open prairie, without any protection whatever for our men. The artil lery advanced and took station within 200. yards of the enemy's breastwork, and commenced an effective fire with grape and canister. Colonel Sherman with his regiment having commenced the action upon otir left wing, the whole line, at the centre and on the right, advancing in double quick time, rung the war cry, " Remember the Alamo," received the enemy's fire, and advanced within point blank shot before a piece was discharged from our lines. Our line advanced without a halt, until they were in possession of the woodland and the enemy's breastwork, the right wing of Burleson's and the left of Millard's taking possession of the breastwork, our artillery having gallantly charged up to within 70 yards of the enemy's cannon, when it was taken by our troops. The conflict lasted about 18 minutes from the time of close action, until we were in possession of the enemy's encamp ment, taking one piece of cannon (loaded), four stand of colours, all their camp equipage, stores, and baggage. Our cavalry had charged and routed that ofthe enemy upon the right, and given pursuit to the fugitives, which did not cease until they arrived at the bridge, which I have men tioned before, Captain Karnes, always among the foremost in danger, commanding the pursuers. The conflict in the breastwork lasted but a few moments—many of the troops encountered hand to hand ; and not having the advan tage of bayonets on our side, our riflemen used their pieces as war clubs, breaking many of them off at the breach. The rout commenced at half-past four, and the pursuit by the main army continued until twilight. A, guard was then left in charge of the enemy's encamp ment, and our army returned with their killed and wounded. In the battle, our loss was 2 killed and 23 wounded, 6 of whom mortally. The enemy's loss was 630 killed, among which were 1 general officer, 4 colonels, 2 lieu tenant-colonels, 5 captains, and 12 lieutenants. Wounded, 208 ; of whom there were 5 colonels, 3 lieutenant colonels, 2 second lieutenant-colonels, 7 captains, 1 ca det. Prisoners, 730 ; President General Santa Anna, General Cos, 4 colonels (nide-do . - - camp to General Santa Anna), 6 lieutenant-colonels, the private Secretary of Ge neral Santa Anna, and the Colonel of the Guerrero Bat talion, are included in the number. General Santa Anna was not taken until the 22d, and General Cos yesterday, very few having escaped. About 600 muskets, 300 sabres, and 200 pistols, have been collected since the action ; several hundred mules and horses were taken, and near 12,000 dollars in specie. For several days previous to the action, our troops were engaged in forced marches, ex posed to excessive rains, and the additional inconvenience of extremely bad roads, ill supplied with rations and cloth ing—yet, amid every difficulty they bore up with cheerful ness and fortitude, and performed their marches with speed and alacrity—there was no murmuring. For the Commanding General to attempt discrimination as to the conduct of those who commanded in the action, or those who were commanded, would be impossible. Our success in the action is conclusive proof of their daring in- trepidity and courage ; every officer and man proved him— self worthy of the cause in which he battles, while the triumph received a lustre from the humanity which cha racterized their conduct after victory, and richly entitled them to the admiration and gratitude of their General. Nor should we withhold the tribute of our grateful thanks from that Being who rules the destinies of nations, and has in the time of greatest need enabled us to arrest a powerful invader whilst devastating our country. I have the honour to be, with high consideration, your obedient servant, SAMUEL HOUSTON, Commander-in-Chief. Major-General S. Houston, wounded. Total killed, 6 ; wounded, 23. Several of the wounded since dead. (EXTRACT OF A LETTER.) The number of the enemy's killed is estimated at about 700, and the prisoners taken amount to about 500, more than 200 of them wounded. There are 42 officers pri soners, including Almonti, Cos, and Santa Anna himself. Santa Anna was taken next day after the battle, about ten miles above, in the woods, in a mean citizen's dress, and did not snake himself known until he was taken into ...... the presence of General Houston, to whom be immediately offered a feast of soft corn. . _ You will be gratified by a description of Santa Anna's person. His forehead is high, but narrow in front, spread ing as it extends back obliquely, hair moderately black, small whiskers, and a little mixed with gray. He has large, mild, black eyes ; his nose is narrow between the eyes, but is tolerably straight, and becomes fleshy towards the'end. His mouth is nothing extraordinary, the upper lip rather projecting : one of his upper front teeth is gone ; his under jaw is long. His countenance is animated when speaking. His complexion is a little tawny ; but he shows more of the Moorish than the Mexican tincture. He might pass for a white man, but he would not pass for a native in the United States. His height is 5 feet 10 inches, or per haps more, and he is tolerably well proportioned. His age is 41. TRE NOTORIOUS DUKE OF QUEENSBURY.— To return to the Duke of Queensbury. If he had lived under Charles the Second, he might have disputed for pre-eminence ill the favour of that Prince with the Arlingtons, the Bucking hams, the Falmouths, and the Dorsets, so celebrated under his reign. Many fabulous stories were circulated and believed re specting him ; as, among others, that he wore a glass eye, that he used milk baths, and other idle tales. It is, however, a fact, that the Duke performed, in his own drawing room, the scene of Paris and the Goddesses. Three of the most beautiful fe males to be found in London presented themselves before him precisely as the divinities of Homer are supposed to have ap peered to Paris on Mount Ida ; while he, habited like " the Darden shepherd," holding a gilded apple in his hand, con ferred the prize on her whom he deemed the fairest. This took place at his house near Green-park. Neither the second Duke of Buckinghaea, commemorated by Pope, whose whole life' was a voluptuous whim, nor any other of the licentious noble men, his contemporaries, appear to have even realized a scene so analogous to the manners of that profligate period. The cor rect days of George the Third were reserved to witness its ac complishment. If one cause more than another can be stated, which has been injurious to the peace and prosperity of Ireland, it will be found in the exclusive system that has been acted upon there in regard to the Catholics. This will truly account for all the animosities between the contending parties ; the outrages, murders, and even rebellions, that have afflicted and disgraced that unfortunate country. It may be considered as the root of all the other evils, because if Catholic Emancipation had boen granted sooner, such general improvement of intellect might have taken place, as might have dispelled the clouds of dark ness, and bettered the condition of the people, physical as well as moral. It is this system which has been the curse of Ireland for more than five centuries ; and into what a state has it brought the country—such as would disgrace even an age of barbarism. Its supporters have had nothing but bloodshed and hatred from it, yet many of them would still persevere in the same course. It was to he hoped, that the spirit as well as the substance of this destructive engine of power had beta buried in the grave from which Catholic Emanci pation had risen : yet here it springs up again to a new life ; and one might almost suppose, from the strength by which it is advocated by some, like a giant refreshed. Such have been its baneful effects ; such ever will be, unless our legislators possess the' faculty of constituting human nature afresh, and different from what it has been : unless they can with Prome thean fire, to be stolen from heaven, and not from a worse place, instil into the heart of man different passions from those by which it is now governed.—Colonel Rawstorne's View of the State of Pauperism in Ireland. ConoNEß's INQUEST.—On Thursday an inquest was held by W. Carter, Esq., Coroner for Surrey, at the Two Brewers public house, Wandsworth, on the body of Eliza Nlerrvweather, who poisoned herself on Tuesday last, by tak ing a quantity of oxalic acid. The unfortunate deceased had cohabited with a man of the name of Buck for some months, acid a short tithe since she was induced by a " tally-man" to take a quantity of wearing-apparel upon trust, unknown to him, but he discovered it on Sunday last, and he was so exas perated that he told her they must part. The deceased ap peared very much excited in consequence, b u t s h e u l t i ma tely agreed to leave him on the Tuesday following. On that morning, however, when ha went into her room, he found her in a dying state, and upon the chimney-piece lay a paper con taining a quantity of oxalic; acid, and also a letter, which nap peared to have just b een wr i t t en b y h er. Sh e ex pired shortly afterwards. The following were the contents of the letter : " You have now go t w h at y ou wante d . Y o u and your family have been TR.)) untimely end . My will attend you and your's as l e as you live. I forgive von. Ben, for all ; hut I shall nevev rest in my grave till I have my revenge on you end. yaws." Verdict, " That the deceased destroyed herself by taking oxalic acid while in a state of temporary derangemeiat ;c 1 ccle